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Ymre Schuurmans Academic Director Institute of Public Law 05 January 2021The Faculty Board has appointed Professor Ymre Schuurmans as Academic Director of the Institute of Public Law. Schuurmans is Professor of Constitution...
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Work in the time of the coronavirus: ‘I miss the processions' 04 January 2021How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? This is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series of articles. This time we...
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‘My mother couldn’t attend my wedding due to corona measures’ 18 December 2020At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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2020 in pictures: How coronavirus kept us apart, but somehow brought us together 17 December 20202020 will go down in the history books as an eventful year. The traces left by the coronavirus this year will remain, for students as well as staff at...
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Cisca Hoogendijk receives Festschrift 15 December 2020On 8 December, on the occasion of her 65th birthday, Cisca Hoogendijk was surprised with a festive bundle of 56 text editions by friends and colleague...
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Stefaan Van den Bogaert Director of Research and Vice Dean 15 December 2020Stefaan Van den Bogaert, Professor of European Law and Academic Director of the Institute of Public Law, is to join the Faculty Board of Leiden Law Sc...
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Work in the time of coronavirus: ‘It’s actually become easier to meet people’ 14 December 2020How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? That’s the question we are asking our colleagues in this series. Jasmijn Mioch, for instan...
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Our year on social media 14 December 2020It’s been a turbulent, bizarre and extraordinary year, 2020. Coronavirus turned the lives of everyone at our University upside down. Out teaching, res...
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Walter Burkard wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 13 December 2020On 10 December Walter Burkard won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 for his thesis on climate change and children’s rights.
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga becomes Assistant Professor at eLaw 10 December 2020eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, has promoted Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga to Assistant Professor to work on Law and Artificial Intellig...
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Introducing Steven Hill, our new Associate Senior Policy Fellow 10 December 2020Steven Hill will be appointed as Associate Senior Policy Fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) for a period of two years.
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The real value of the telescope-on-a-plane 10 December 2020Cornelia Pabst is a PhD candidate at Leiden Observatory, whose research is based around primary data taken by instruments onboard SOFIA, an airplane-b...
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Marco Spruit wants to develop a language model to improve healthcare 10 December 2020By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...
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‘Connect to at least one other person’ 10 December 2020At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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Mirjam Sombroek–van Doorm appointed Associate Professor Health Law 10 December 2020In addition to being Director of Operational Management at Leiden Law School, Mirjam Sombroek–van Doorm will help develop Health Law at the faculty in...